Okay, so I watched the tach. I was in the city, driving slowly (25 mph?), had driven maybe two miles since starting. Slowed way down (maybe stopped) to merge at a yield, when I picked up to go forward it died. The tach was perhaps at 2000 rpm, in 2nd gear, when it started dying, it went down to 1000. I turned the engine off before it was completely dead (someone suggested that, can't remember who), it hovered at 1000 (I didn't sit around with it off, there were cars behind me), I turned it on and it worked fine. Got me to my destination (only a couple of miles further). On the way home, I was in 3rd, started down a long hill & put it in neutral. At the bottom of the hill, turning (but not stopping), I put it back in gear (2nd) and it died. Turned it off and back on and it worked fine the rest of the way home. Does this tell you more about what's going on? Re having problems restarting - that happened twice back in NJ last November. One time it coughed and sputtered a couple of times, and then worked. The other time I drove around fifty feet out of my friends' driveway and it died at the corner. There it seemed to be totally dead, then after ten minutes or so it started up again. (I had called a tow truck, then canceled it.) And the time it happened at 70 mph on the highway a month ago, I sat for 10 minutes before it started properly. Other than that, starting hasn't been be a problem. I haven't had any reason to drive on the highway since I've been back. Last time, I drove 1500 miles on the highway before it acted up, so I'm not keen to take the van out on the highway just to see what happens. Could be a long trip...
Joy
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:28 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > You earlier said that starting again can be a problem after the stall. THAT > has nothing to do with true vanagon syndrome. Restarting fixes true v.s., at > least for a short time. That doesn't mean the v.s. pigtail won't help you > though. > > Watch your tach closely the next time you feel the problem. Tell us what > you see. > > Mark > > > Joy Hecht wrote: > >> Other opinions? If the problem occurs often in urban driving, do you all >> agree that it probably isn't vanagon syndrome? >> >> >> Joy >> >> >> |
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